To Charles A. Dana
12 May 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 02978)
12 May 1884 • Hartford, Conn. (Transcript: CU-MARK, UCCL 02978)
Hartford, May 12/84.
Dear Mr. Dana:
I am busy writing up my recent experiences on a bicycle, now, but when I finish that I will sit down & take a solid think & see if it is in me to write a short story of an acceptable sort. Until which time beliebe ich zu Befehl
Ys Truly
S L Clemens
I want to write it
Transcript, CU-MARK. The transcript is entirely in the hand of Lansing C. Bailey of the Utica (N.Y.) Observer, who sent it to Clemens’s biographer, Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine’s docket is on the verso of the transcript. The location of the original letter is unknown.
MicroML, reel 5.